it doesn’t have to be all about me you say
it needs to be about life, about consciousness…
about equality and freedom and social awareness
it needs to be about the world around me and not me.
you’ve said it on two-hundred forty-three pages
injustice i scream…
i can take on the burden of the world but only when
i am whole and i have settled my own demons
then i can be superman to others; saving lives
making a difference in the scale that you have intended that we be measured.
but until i have become a full person; i will have to act
in the small parts that am accustomed to; making a difference in
my friends…in trivial conquests such as love and sanity and kindness
and i will save lives, not in thousands but one by one
those who silently die of unrequited love and despair of the future
i, in the difference of the small things i have done, have assumed
what you have preached…on a smaller scale. in less grandeur
but on the same element as all the great people before me.
i write about myself and only my sentiments. but they are shared
by thousands and i save souls one by one.
Posted by juvifish on July 15, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Yes. I love poetry.
…and I try hard for it to love me.
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Posted by curtis on February 5, 2009 at 2:33 am
“it needs to be about the world around me and not me.
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i can take on the burden of the world but only when
i am whole and i have settled my own demons”
im a freshmen in college (T.C.U), and i am madly in love with all kinds of poetry. i have this teacher that makes every word, every sonnet sound like forgotin scripture from the timeless minds of its writers. pleas tell me thats how much you love poetry, and if so then help me love poetry more!
Posted by ErallcoryDaro on May 12, 2009 at 4:00 am
I hope so.
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